Award Winners

• Academic Association Awards
• Bancroft Prize
• Cookbook Awards
• International Awards and Prizes
• Library Awards
  • ALA Carnegie Medal
  • Alex Award
  • BCALA First Novelist Award
  • New York Society Library Award
  • Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
  • NYPL Helen Bernstein Award
  • Library of Virginia Literary Award
• Lincoln Prize
• Media Awards
• National Book Award
• National Book Critics Circle Award
• National Jewish Book Award
• Nobel Prize
• Other Awards and Honors
• PEN Prizes
• Poetry Awards
• Professional Association Awards
• Pulitzer Prize
• State and Regional Awards
• Translation Awards

Alex Award

1. Stitches: A Memoir

   David Small

   The #1 New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist that "breaks new ground for graphic novels" (Francois Mouly, art editor, The New Yorker).More

2. The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

   Sebastian Junger

   A real-life thriller that leaves us with the taste of salt on our tongues and a terror of the deep.More

3. The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

   Michael Lewis

   "Lewis has such a gift for storytelling...he writes as lucidly for sports fans as for those who read him for other reasons."—Janet Maslin, New York TimesMore

4. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

   Mary Roach

   "One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year....Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting."—Entertainment WeeklyMore